Sec. 3. Availability of copyright license
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Section 119 of title 17, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a)— in paragraph (2)(B)(i), by adding at the end the following: In-State, adjacent-market network station retransmissions to subscribers residing in covered counties shall not count toward the limit set forth in this clause. ; and in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the following: Nothing in this paragraph shall apply to or affect in-State, adjacent-market network station retransmissions to subscribers residing in covered counties. ; and in subsection (d)— in paragraph (10)— in subparagraph (D), by striking ; or and inserting a semicolon; in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; or ; and by adding at the end the following: with respect to an in-State, adjacent-market network station retransmission, is a subscriber residing in a covered county. ; and by adding at the end the following:
The term in-State, adjacent-market network station retransmission means the secondary transmission by a satellite carrier of the primary transmission of any network station whose community of license is located— in a subscriber’s State; and in a local market that is adjacent to the subscriber’s local market. The term covered county means, with respect to an in-State, adjacent-market network station retransmission to a subscriber, any county to which both of the following apply:
The county is one of the following counties in the State of Wisconsin: Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Dunn, Florence, Iron, Pierce, Polk, Sawyer, St. Croix, or Washburn. The county is not in the local market of any television broadcast station— that is affiliated with the same network; and whose community of license is located in the subscriber’s State. . Section 122(a) of title 17, United States Code, is amended— in paragraph (2)(A), by inserting after under paragraph
(1)the following: (or in-State, adjacent-market network station retransmissions instead of secondary transmissions under that paragraph, in accordance with an election under section 344(b) of the Communications Act of 1934) ; and in paragraph (3)(A), by inserting after under paragraph
(1)the following: (or in-State, adjacent-market network station retransmissions instead of secondary transmissions under that paragraph, in accordance with an election under section 344(b) of the Communications Act of 1934) .